When it is known that the greatest propagator of the concept of "totalitarianism" (that's is the real thing here), Hanna Arendt, rejected any process led by the oppressed, such as the wars of independence in Africa, but on the other hand praised processes led by economic elites, such as the American War of Independence, at least it is clear that this concept is not anti-fascist. When you have a concept that places absolutely different processes like the French Revolution and Fascism as equally comparable, the concept is shit.
Hanna Arendt, rejected any process led by the oppressed, such as the wars of independence in Africa,
ok ok i couldnt find what she said about that specifically but i found this???
" Chapter 7 (“Race and Bureaucracy”) in Origins, where Arendt took up this topic directly, she wrote that the eighteenth-century European “enthusiasm for the diversity in which the all-present identical nature of man and reason could find expression” met a stern test when it was “faced with tribes which, as far as we know, never had found by themselves any adequate expression of human reason or human passion in either cultural deeds or popular customs, and which had developed human institutions only to a very low level.”
omg! mind boggling had to share! this was from a summery of Politics in Dark Times
Encounters with Hannah Arendt
When it is known that the greatest propagator of the concept of "totalitarianism" (that's is the real thing here), Hanna Arendt, rejected any process led by the oppressed, such as the wars of independence in Africa, but on the other hand praised processes led by economic elites, such as the American War of Independence, at least it is clear that this concept is not anti-fascist. When you have a concept that places absolutely different processes like the French Revolution and Fascism as equally comparable, the concept is shit.
For more, Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism by Domenico Losurdo and On Authority by Engels
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ok ok i couldnt find what she said about that specifically but i found this???
" Chapter 7 (“Race and Bureaucracy”) in Origins, where Arendt took up this topic directly, she wrote that the eighteenth-century European “enthusiasm for the diversity in which the all-present identical nature of man and reason could find expression” met a stern test when it was “faced with tribes which, as far as we know, never had found by themselves any adequate expression of human reason or human passion in either cultural deeds or popular customs, and which had developed human institutions only to a very low level.”
omg! mind boggling had to share! this was from a summery of Politics in Dark Times Encounters with Hannah Arendt